Improvement in game apparatus



UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

EBENEZER F. LANE, OF SWANSEY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAME APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,868, dated May 12,1874; application iiled f March 11, 1874.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EBENEZER F. LANE, of Swansey, in the county ofCheshire, State of New Hampshire, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Games, of Which the following is a descriptionsufficiently full, clear, and'exact to enable any person skilled in theart or science to which my invention appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, forming a part ofthis specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, showingthe method of arranging the pins and rolling the truck. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the truck; Fig. 3, an edge view.

Like letters refer to like parts in the different gures of the drawing.

My invention relates to that class of amusements known as parlor-gamesand consists in a grooved wheel provided with a projecting pin or stud,a dart-whip having a loop at the end of the lash, and a set of ten-pins,numbered, respectively, from one to ten.

The extreme simplicity of my invention renders an elaborate descriptionunnecessary.

In Figure 1, A is the Wheel; B, the stock or bow of the Whip 5 C, thelash 5 and D the pins set up in position. The periphery of the wheel isgrooved, as shown in Fig. 3, and provided with the pin a, which does notproject beyond the sides of the groove to interfere with the rolling ofthe lWheel. 4

To play the game, the pins are first set up after the manner oftenpi11s, as seen in Fig. l. The loop of the whip is then hooked overthe pin a, and the Wheel grasped between the thumb and foreiinger of theleft hand, the wheel at the same time being turned so as to bring thepin on the side :nearest the player. A strain is then .taken on theWhip, and the lower edge of the truck rested on the ground, and sightedalong the line of the lash at the pins. Now, if the truck is suddenlyreleased, the expansive action of the Whip-sta' will cause the truck tobe propelled with great force against the pins in a manner which will bereadily obvious to all.

A large loop may be formed in the end of the lash of the whip, andslipped over the Wheel, to propel the truck, instead of using the pin a,Without departing from the spirit of my invention. y, y

The score or tally of the game is kept in ac cordance with the number ofpins knocked down, and also with the numbers on the pins.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The game apparatusherein described, consisting of the set of pins D, the whip B C, andgrooved Wheel A, provided with the pin a, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

EBENEZER F. LANE.

Witnesses:

LovELL TAET, HENRY C. LANE.

